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What magazines to you subscribe to or do you buy regularly from a newsstand? I get Country, Country Xtra, Farm & Ranch Living, Herbs for Health, and Country Living GARDENER. I used to get a few others but money... I do buy used copies at yard sales when I can find them and an occasional magazine off a newsstand.

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 10, 2001

Answers

I subscribe to Countryside and Mother Earth News. I get a lot of magazines as hand me downs from my mother, aunt, brother etc. ranging from women's magazines, to gardening, to hunting. Polly

-- (jserg45@hotmail.com), December 10, 2001.

I regularly get Countryside, Aussie Times, Discipleship Journal, all by subscription. I buy Victoria, Country Living, Country Home, and Southern Living if there are enough articles that I want to read. I go to the library for Mother Earth News, Prevention, Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes and Gardens. I wish my library carried some of the others. I rarely buy one off the rack unless there are lots of things that interest me. Even so, I have huge stacks of magazines that I hang onto.

-- melina b. (goatgalmjb1@hotmail.com), December 10, 2001.

Some people smoke, some people drink, I buy magazines!!! They are truly a weakness for me and something I have been working on cutting down(not out). I get Countryside, Country Home, Country Living and Southern Living. I read BH&G at my MIL, since she has a subscription. Sometimes I get Romantic Homes, especially if they have a cute babies room (my sister is trying to get pregnant). I read my Dad's woodworking magazines and Organic Gardening. My husband get's Kiplinger's and Money and I often find myself reading those too.

-- Ivy in NW AR (balch84@cox-internet.com), December 10, 2001.

The only magazine I subscribe to is countryside. I read lots of different ones, when I can get them. I especially like any Reiman Publications magazines, like Country, Country Woman, Farm and Ranch, Birds and Blooms, and Reminense (sp?). I like women's magazines, cooking magazines, country decorating magazines. Really almost anything having to do with families or country life.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), December 10, 2001.

I get Countryside, Taste of Home, and Quilters Newsletter, as subscriptions. Occasionally I will splurge and get a Ladies Home Journal or some such magazine, if they have an article or two that interests me. Hubby likes to get me any racing magazine that has an article about my favorite drivers.

Take care!

-- Judy L. (quiltjude@iwon.com), December 10, 2001.



I still get Countryside but not sure yet if I will renew or not. I also get Mother Earth News. It has gotten better lately. I get Family Circle and Womans' Day but don't think I will renew those. I also get Country Woman but I'm a little disappointed in it - just not much in it, I don't think. I'm thinking seriously about subscribing to Harrowsmith which is a country, homesteading type magazine out of Canada. I also get Country Living Gardener and Organic Gardening (now OG). I've been very disappointed in Organic Gardening since they came out with their new magazine, Organic style or something like that and I doubt I will renew. Just not much in OG anymore. The old ones are great! In fact I have quite a collection from the '70's and '80's which I can reread and reread! They just don't make magazines like they used to. I'm tired of paying $3 or $4 for a magazine that is half advertisements and not much else. I also was getting Back Home till this last issue but decided for the cost they just don't have much content either. I read Back Woods Home sometimes when I can find it but I don't subscribe.

-- Barb in Ky. (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), December 10, 2001.

I am too cheap to buy subscriptions, but I buy old issues when I can of some magazines like countryside. I have been given a subscription to family fun--which has great crafts for kids, and I do alot of kid volunteering.

Wish someone would give me a subscription to southern living, countryside and good housekeeping.

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), December 10, 2001.


Countryside, BHM, Home Power, Yankee. Get my hands on others at the library. Countryside is my favorite one that we get. My addiction is books, moreso than magazines.

-- Cat (catcrazy@somewher.com), December 10, 2001.

Countryside, Back Woods Home, and The Backwoodsman are the only magazines I subscribe to. For now, that is plenty. Back issues are kept for reference and after six or so months, are almost like getting a new issue. I do buy as many back issues of a magazine I enjoy as possible.

As for newstands, I pick and choose pretty carefully. The hunting magazines are gettin' kind of repetitious now; I subscribed to six or seven 20 years ago, and aside from the models of firearms used, sounds like the same story. MEN sometimes interests, but not usually.

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), December 10, 2001.


They are a real temptation for me too. Currently, I get Countryside, Backwoods Home, and Country Living. Oh, and my parents get me Reader's Digest and occasionally a health or cooking magazine subscription. Got Victoria for a year. Not that much in it that appeals to me but may subscribe for my mom. Read Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, and a few others at the library.

-- conniein nm (karrelandconnie@msn.com), December 10, 2001.


I subscribe to Countryside, American Bee Journal, and Gleanings in Bee Culture. I also get a subscription to Southern Living for my birthday every year. I read a few financial and entertainment industry trades at work, and get a variety of other magazines used from the exchange bin at our local library.

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), December 10, 2001.

I don't subscribe to any magazines.

-- melinda (speciallady104@hotmail.com), December 11, 2001.

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